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K11LT0M; 1HP. Milton, Ind., Aug. 16. Mr. and Mrs. John Hlzer of Monde, are visiting friends at Milton. . ' Mrs. James Baker recently showed to large early cabbage heads that made a total weight of 14 pounds. James Napier of Centervllle, ; was greeting friends here, Saturday. He will soon become a resident of this place. Miss Cassie Turner has gone to Richmond to stay with Mrs. Russell. The King's Builders met with Miss Lora Bee son, Friday evening. A pretty program was observed. Hiram Crook went to New Castle yesterday and from there to Jackson, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Cook and family spent yesterday with Charles Coz and family at Dublin. , Miss Nellie . Newman of west vof town, who Is one of the leading teachers in the Cambridge City schools, will attend Chautauqua. Mr, and Mrs. Horace Crismond, enroute from 1 Dayton to their home at Logansport, spent over Friday evenlog with Mr., and Mts.-W. A. Bragg. Miss Fern Paxson spent over Sunday, home, from Earlbam. Mrs. Alvln Lowery gave a five o'clock dinner Friday evening. Her guests were the Misses Louise Mueller, Mary Wasson, of Indianapolis and Ruby Kellam, Mr. and Mrs. Will Wissler spent yesterday with relatives near Williamsburg. Mrs. John Debois has a pretty bed of zenias In bloom. Mrs. Marie Beeson left yesterday for New York to spend a few weeks. Mrs. Huber of Pendleton who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles Dailey returned Home Saturday. She was accompanied by Miss Daphne Dailey who will spend a few days as her guest Mrs. S. TempHn's latest sword from her brother's wife, Mrs. Tbos. Hinds, of Holton. states that she Is again conscious but Is helpless on one side. It will be remembered that Mr. Hinds came to visit his sister but was recalled immediately because his wife had suffered paralysis. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Owens returned Saturday, from New Castle. Mrs. Will Null is on the sick list. She is unable to be up. N. W. Paxson was at Laurel, Saturday, in the interest of the Milton Riverside flour mills. Charles Davis was at Connersville Saturday, on business. Joshua Gresh was home from Indianapolis to visit his parents Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Gresh and other relatives. A large crowd attended the sale of household goods and other personal effects held by Mrs. Martha Lee, Saturday, notwithstanding the rain. Mrs. Walter Templin and Miss Ruby Moore attended the Whitely reunion at Riverside park, Indianapolis, Saturday. ; '. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McMahan visited her brother, Richard McMullen at Waterloo Friday. Mrs. W. L. Parkins and daughter, Miss Miriam had for their guests Friday evening, Mesdames Mary Walker, Vene Beeson and Miss Carrie Walker. Mrs. Klmmerling, who has been the guest of Mrs. Rebecca Lowery and other relatives returned home to Elwood, Saturday. Her daughter, Miss Orpha Klmmerling remained. Farmers in this township say that clover seed will be scarce. The English clover amounts to little and the other clover is too late. Royden Wolfgang is on the sick list and unable to be at his place as clerk. In Jones's grocery. Harry Doty the other young clerk Is also out because he Is suffering from a boil on his arm. : Among the many happy reunions at the JDoddridge home coming was that of the brothers and sisters of Joseph Clevenger of this place. Miss Clemmie Market . and constat Per Wcaen-Ly dia E. Pinkfcrun'sVegetable Compound Noah. Kv. I was nasstnff through tfes Change of Life and suffered from headaches, nervous Erostration, and emorrhages. "Lydia E. Pink-' ham's Vegetable Compound made me well and strong, so that I can do all my housework; and attend to the store and postomce, and I feel muchyounger than I really am. Lydia E. Pink. ham's Vegetable Compound is the most successful remedy for all kinds of female troubles, and I feel that I can never praise it enough." Mrs. Lixan IIot.t.ako, Noah, Ky. The Change of Life Is themostcrltical period of a wnmsn'a existence, and; neglect of health at this time invites' disease and pain. Womeneverywhere should remember, that there ia no otler remedy known to medicine that will so successfully carry, women throuf h tfcta trying period as' Lvdla IS. Pinkhauf s Vegetable Com. pound, made from native root and For C9 yean it has been airing women from the worst forme of female tils Inflammation, nloeration, die-, Waoamente. fibsoid tsoon, trregulari. use, penooao pains, oacs-acne, ana nervous ptostr&on. If yon uracil LSn rpeelal svdriee about yocr cars mrlM a. confiden tial lettsr t TZsa, UtsZtyan, at SaHMUOMk

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Louis Klieber spent over yesterday with friends at Cedar Grove and other places In that vicinity. , Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hart were in the country east of town to visit their farm, Saturday.

Sam Thompson was at luncheon with Miss Kate Mueller, in honor of the Misses Louise Mueller and Mary Wasson of Indianapolis, Friday. Marven Wallace went from here to Indianapolis, and will probably go on from there to Butte, Montana. He has not definitely settled as to whether be will accept his former position in the Butte, Montana school, or not. Miss Leota George was borne from Doddridge Saturday evening. Mrs. Perry Vorhees of Cincinnati attended the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Jane McLaughlin yesterday. Mesdames George Pence and James Lemmon of Indianapolis attended the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Jane McLaughlin. HAGERSTOWN. IND. Haters town, Ind., Aug 16. Mrs. Effle Flenner and daughter, Miss Maud Flenner, have returned to their home at Hamilton, O., after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dick. Mrs. Eunice May of Indianapolis has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. ML T. Fox. . John Replogle and son Charles of near Economy, were at Hagerstown on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Baldwin and Granville Keever and daughter of Muncie) have been visiting at the home of Mrs. Mary Keever, north of town. The eighth annual picnic of the teachers and school board members was held Friday at the school premises. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Everett Root and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Keagy and son George Mr. and Mrs. Ed Porter, Miss India Keys. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Porter and daughter, Esther, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Allen and son Mark, Mr. and - Mrs. George Bowman, Dr. Stotlemeyer and Mrs. Stotlemeyer, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Bowman and family, Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Fox Rev. and Mrs. Warbinton. Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Castor, Mrs. Elizabeth Winnings. Mrs. William Waltz, Miss Ada Waltz, Miss Blanch Coffman, Miss Daisy Lea veil and guest Mrs. Lewis Baldwin, Miss Harriet Lyons, Colwell Miller, Miss Anna Burgess, Alonzo Daugherty and Jerome Day. A sumptuous dinner and supper was served and the time spent socially. The following officers were re-elected: Prof. Charles Woolard, president; Mrs. Elnora Root, secrteary. Mr. and Mrs. John Sells have re turned from a two weeks visit with friends and relatives at Logansport. Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Brant will move to Bloomington this fall. Their chil dren Nellie and Frank who are graduates of the Hagerstown high school, will enter the state university at Bloomington. 1 Miss Jeannette Mathews will take a new position at Tacoma, Wash., during the fall millinery season. Mrs. C. H. Oler and daughter, Martha of Indianapolis are visiting at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Weaver, north of town. P. H. Davis is having the exterior of his residence property on Main street painted. Miss Irene Addington went to the fall millinery openings at Cincinnati Monday where she will spend two weeks before taking her positron. Mrs. Seward Hardwick and two children of near Economy spent Friday wtih Mrs. Emma Foyst and family. Miss Nellie Pegg, aged thirty-six years died Friday night of hasty consumption at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Pegg, north of town. The' deceased was a prominent teacher in the Muncie schools until a year ago when she laid aside her work to take a much needed rest. Mr. and Mrs. Bdgar Brown and Mrs. Ellen Jordan of Richmond, were guests Friday of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Pierce. Miss Olive Bowman was the guest over Sunday of Miss Edna Voris at Fountain City. The funeral services of Mrs. Daniel Ulrich were held aat the German Baptist church Saturday afternoon and -were largely attended. Burial took place at the Ulrich cemetery north west of town. The deceased was survived by the husband and six daughters, Miss Josephine Ulrich and Mrs. George McPherson of Hagerstown; Mrs. Nelson Main of Anderson; Mrs. Joseph Kerr of Mooreland; Mrs. Christopher Brosey and Mrs. George Dutro of Modoc -h CAMBRIDGE CITY, IND. Cambridge City, Aug. 16. Mrs. Chase Mauzy of Rush ville was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Combs Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Petro and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kellar attended the New Castle fair Friday. Mrs. Omar Guyton spent Friday In Centervllle the gue6t of her sister Mrs. Joe Hurst. Miss Marie Beeson of Milton was in Cambridge City Friday evening enroute to New York city. Masters Charles, Ross and Paul Coffin returned from Jeffersonville where they visited their sister. Bert Medsker spent Friday In Indianapolis. Harry B. Ault and son of Chicago, came Saturday evening for two weeks visit with Prof, and Mrs. Lee Ault. ; Prof, and Mrs. Glenn Swlggett and Mrs. Hester Swlggett will go to Petoskey Tuesday to remain several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. David Whitesell of Greenville, O., Frank Whitesell and Rhodes Whitesell of Richmond, Frank Whitesell, Jr., and other relatives attended the funeral and Interment of Samuel Whitesell Friday. - Miss Eliza Thornbro of Indianapolis is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. O. EL White. " Mrs. Bertram Berger of Kokomo and Mr. and Mrs.: Phillip of

spent Sunday with Mr.' and Mrs. Root Steele. . .Harry Hall made a business trip to Richmond Friday. Stanley Guyton and family of Richmnod and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sites of New Castle visited Mrs. Susie Guyton Sunday., No damage was done by the electrical storm Saturday aside from the striking of a shed on the premises of Ben Griffin. . Miss Lucile Garrett has returned to her home in Knightstown after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Foster Scudder. Miss Mayme Metts of New Castle spent Sunday at her home in this place. Mr. and Mrs. Omer Huddleson of Muncie, visited the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chrales Marson over the Sabbath. John Murphy and family of Conners

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CHAPTER X. lovx. A poor stenographer The positive young lady under altered circumstance Mist Gentles' story A hard road for tender feet Social and tentimental A misunderstandingWhich is made right in the only way My bow invite us to dinnerAnother kind of woman A woman's shrewdness The social gift At the opera Business and pleasure Sarah on Mrs. Dround. mlvwas a hot day in August three years after the trial. I was sitting in Carmichael's office trying to get a breath of fresh air from bis vast meadows. I called old Peters and asked him to send me up a stenographer. "Haven't a good one In the place, Mr. Harrington," be said. "All the smart ones are off on their vacation. There's Miss Gentles, though. The old man generally keeps her for himself, but he's gone home by this time." "Send up anything so long as it can write!" "Well, she ain't much good," Peters replied. I had my head down behind my desk when the stenographer came in, and I began to dictate without looking up. These stenographer ladles were all of a piece to me pert, knowing missesall but Miss Harben. She was fifty and sour and took my letters like biting j on tnreaa. xnis one evidently wasn't in her class, for pretty soon she sang out: "Please wait! I can't go so fast." So I waited and looked up to see what I had to do with. This young woman was a good looking, ladylike person with a mass of lovely brown hair and long brown eyelashes. She was different from the other girls in the office, and yef it seemed to me I bad seen her before. She was dressed in black, a sort of half mourning, I judged. Pretty soon she got stuck again and asked me to repeat. This time she looked at me imploringly. "I am not very good," she said, with a smile. "No, you are not,' I replied. She laughed at my blunt answerlaughed pleasantly, like a lady who knows how to turn off a harsh truth, not flirtatiously, like most of her profession. "Been long at itr I asked the next time she broke down. "Not so very. I graduated from the school about six months ago. and I have always worked for Mr. Dround since then. He doesn't talk as fast as you do, not nearly." She smiled again at me frankly and naturally. Suddenly I remembered where I had seen that face before, and when she looked up again I said: "Did yon ever find that purse. Miss Gentles?" She looked puszled at first; then a light spread over her face, and she stammered: "Why. of course; you are the Mr. Harrington who But you have changed!" "Rather. I hope! And the light wasn't goad in the police station that morning." Miss Gentles leaned back In her chair and laughed, a blush spreading prettily over her face. "It's all so funny!" she exclaimed. "Funnier now than it was then," 1 admitted. "I am very glad to meet yon again. No; I never found that purse. The Judge still twits me when he sees me about changing my mind. He thinks" Then she stopped in embarrassment, and it was some time before 1 found out what the judge did thmk. "Have you been back to that place In Indiana V she asked. And we had quite a chat. She talked to me like a young lady who was receiving a caller in her father's house. It took a long time to finish the few letters I bad started te write. When she went I got up and opened .the door for her. I had te. "Good afternoon. Mr. Harrington," she said, holding est her hand. "I am so glsd to have met you again.". Old Peters, who was in the outer office, looked at as In considerable surprise. When Miss Gentles had gone he remarked In a gossiping way: "So you know the young woman?" "I met her once years ago," I admitted. "How did she land here? She doesn't seem to have had much experience as a stenographer." "No; she hasn't Her father died several years age and didn't leave a cent. He was a very popular doctor, though a southerner. They lived kind of high, I guess, while there was anything. She Breuada knew them . In their better days, and when the doctor died Mis. Dround tried te help the girl In one way and another. Then they fixed o this joe for her. I guess Mr Dround dent work her very hard. Sorry you were troubled with her Well see that you get a rattler the next time, Mr. Harrington," he ended (The men taue office were nreQy ale

ville, spent Sunday with friends in th!s place. Miss Ruth Ferguson has returned home after a visit with relatives la Hamilton and New Castle. Dr. Robert Mosbaugh of Columbus, Ohio, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mosbaugh. Miss Mamie Colbert and Master Howard Mullen of Indianapolis visited their uncle Fred Storch Sunday. Herman Schelheimer will leave this week for New York on a business trip. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Romer go to Celina, O., Tuesday to visit the latter's mother, Mrs. Kreutsch. Dr. and Mrs. C E. Canaday of New Castle, spent Sunday with friends in this place. Mrs. John Page and children of Connersville, were the guests of Mrs. May Boden Sunday.

to "Mr, Harrington" these days a "Oh, she isn't so bad." I said to Peters, for I rather looked forward to seeing the pretty, pleasant mannered girl again. "I'd just as soon have Miss Gentles next week when Mr. Dround goes east if no one else wants her." Old Peters had a twinkle in bis eyes ss he answered, "Just as you say, Mr. Harrington." So I came to sea a good deal of Miss Gentles that summer while Mr. Dround was away on his vacation. 1 can't say that the young lady developed mucb business ability. She forgot most things with a wonderful ease, and she was never very accurate. But she tried hard, and it seemed to worry her so when . I pointed out her mistakes that I took to having in another stenographer In the afternoon to finish what she hadn't done. Miss Gentles boarded with an old aunt of her mother's near where Slocum and 1 lived. I gathered that the aunt and her husbaud were not very kind to her. They thought she ought to marry, having good looks and no money. Miss Gentles let me call on her, and before the summer was over we were pretty well acquainted. For a long time the thought of May had kept me from looking at a woman. 1 always saw that little white face and those searching eyes and heard that mocking laugh. But Miss Gentles was so different from May that she never made me think of the woman I had once loved. I took Slocum to call on my new acquaintance, but they didn't get on well together. She thought his old Yankee ways were hard, and I suppose he thought I was bound on the voyage of life with a pleasure loving mate. He nsed to growl te me about tying myself to a woman, but I always said he needn't worry about me. X wasn't the marrying kind. "Oh. you'll be wanting to get married the same as the rest of the world," Slocum would answer, "and have a wife and children to spend your money on and make you earn more!" But I thought differently. A man of my sort, I replied to him. works snd fights jUBt the same without wife or child, because of the fight ia him, because he can't help himself, any more than the man who wants to drink can keep his lips from the glass. It's in his blood and bone. Miss Gentles had seen a good deal of society, the best there was In the city In those early days, it was odd to hear her talking about people who were just big names to me. as If she bad known them all her life. I must have struck her as pretty green, but she made me feel from the first like some one she had always known. She was proud enough, but staple, and not In the least reserved. She told me all about her people, the easy times snd the hard times. And never a word of complaint or regret for all the parties and good things that were gene out of ber life. She was one te take her beer with a joke when she couldn't have champagne. Of course I told her, first and last, all say story. She made me take her to see the Hoetetters at the old place on Van Buren street Then the four of us went up the lake on a picnic one Sunday. Hillary, I remember, was sullen because Ed paid so much attention to Miss Gentles on this trip. So we became good friends. Yet I never felt really Intimate with ber, as I had with Hillary, and when I tried to step past a certain line she had her own way of keeping me off not haughtily or pertly, but like a lady who knew bow people of the great world, where I had never been, behaved to one another. One day, I remember, I was fool enough to send ber a little fancy purse with a gold eagle In it and a line saylng'that it was time for me to make restitution or something of the sort My gift came back quick enough, with a clever little note tucked inside saying she couldn't let me admit that I had taken ber parse. It was s good lesson for me. When Mr. Dround returned in the fall she reported to him for work, and I wss not altogether sorry. I hsd plenty of chances to see her outside of the office now. and I was desperately busy. In a few days, however, when I happened to be In Mr. Dronnd's office on some matter bo began to talk about Miss Gentles. Peters hsd told him that I had had ber as my stenographer during his absence, and Mr. Dround would like te have me continue as she wasn't adapted to hie needs. Then he spoke of her people and how he and Mrs. Dround hsd held them in the highest esteem and had tried to do something for this girt But there had seemed te be nothing that she was really fitted to do. So we began a gala our work together, only it was worse, for her fashionable friends were hack In the city now, and they kept inviting ber out to parties sad. one thing and another until

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she was tOo sleepy to do her work In the morning snd was rather Irregular. Then she was ill, off for a fortnight I had Peters hire me another stenographer, a man, and Miss Gentles still drew ber pay. Peters winked at me when I suggested that he needn't mention the fact of her absence in his report I suppose, if I had stopped to think of it, I should bare considered It more businesslike of her to quit her society and parties when she found they were Interfering with her work. It was human, though, that she should want to get a little fun out of life and not lose sight altogether of the gay world where they have time to amuse themselves. And a pretty woman like her could hardly be expected to take stenography in a stockyards office seriously. Well, I missed her more and more, especially as I couldn't see her now that she was 111 and had to content myself with nice little notes of thanks for the flowers and fruit I sent She came back at last, looking weak and droopy, for the first time rather hopeless, as if she saw that she wasn't fitted for the job and couldn't keep up with her friends either. I felt very sorry for her. She wasn't made for work any one could see that and It was a cruel shame to let her boggle on with it Just then I had to go te Texas on business. , When I got back a week or so later, Peters told me that Miss Gentles bad left five days before. A cold little note on my desk said goodby snd thanked me fer my kindness to her never a word of explanation. I was so upset that I didn't wait te open my letters, but called a cab and started for the aunf s to find out what was the matter. It was just as well I had been la a hurry, for In another ten minutes Miss Gentles would have been on her way to Louisville, and it would have taken a week to hunt out the small place In Kentucky where she was going. Her trunk was packed, and she was sitting with ber sunt in the large, ugly parlor waiting for the expressman to come. When I walked in, following the servant she didn't draw back her veil, but merely stood up and touched fingers with me. I saw that something wss so wrong that it had to be made right at once, with no time to spare. "You will kindly let me speak to Miss Gentles slone." I said to the funt who Was inclined to stick. She went out of the room ungraciously. "Now." I said, taking the girl's hand and looking through her veil into her eyes, "whst is the matter? Tell me." Her eyes were large and moist, and ber lips quivered, but she shut her teeth down hard and said stiffly: "Nothing whatever, Mr. Harrington. You are very kind to come to see me before I leave." "You aren't going to put me off with any such smooth answer as that." I said, "or you will have my company all the way you're going, wherever it msy be. Tell me the straight truth snd all of it" She began to laugh at my bluffing words snd ended with a nervous sob. After awhile I learned the whole story. It seems thst the man I employed talked out m the office about how he did all my week and while I was south one of the "lsdy stenographers hsd said something to Miss Gentles a something she would net tell me. So she got up snd took her leave, and. knowing that her old aunt wouldn't want her around if she hsd no job, she had written some cousins in Kentucky and wss going to them. The expsassman came about this time, but be dldat take her trunk. And when I left that chilly parlor we were engaged to be married. She said st the last putting her hands on my cost: "Yen know I always liked you, even In the police station. Mr. Harrington and and I am so very, very happy now. Van! It was terrible to think of going sway. I had te, before you were due heme. I wss never so miserable before m say life!" Something stirred from the bottom of my heart X felt pitiful for all her trouble, her weakness, her struggle with a world she went made for. Then she enM trosttngfy, like a little child: "And you win always be good to me, ss papa was with mamma, and patient and love me a great deal, won't you? Yes. 1 knew ypu will!" .

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r fcisseu 'Her, feeling then that notnlng in life could ever be like the privilege of loving and protecting this woman In her helplessness. 1 suppose that words like those she and 1 spoke then are common enough between men and women when they are in love. Yet those words have always been to me like some kind of sacred oath the woman asking out of her weakness for love and protection from the one who holds all happiness and life for ber, and the man, with bis hasty passions, promising of the best there Is in him. Many a time in later years, when It hasn't always been easy to see things simply as It wss then In our first joy, those words of hers have come back to me and given me that same soft tug at my heart To hurt her would be to strike a child, to wring the neck of a bird that nestled in your hand. There are a good many kinds of love in this world, as there are of hate: Perhaps about the best of sll Is this desire to protect and cherish a woman the feeling that any man who is worth his salt has for the one be wants to marry. Sarah walked part way back to the office with me that morning, then turned north, saying she must try to find Mrs. Dround and tell her. She was so happy she couldn't go home snd sit down quietly until I got back from the office. Mrs. Dround, she knew, would be specially glad to hear the news. "For she thinks you are a very smart young man," Sarah added shyly. "The lady must be a mind reader, then, for In the ten years I have been with the firm I can't remember seeing her once." "Oh, yes, she has seen you. She said so. Anyway, Jane knows sll about you, you may be sure. There isn't much that goes en around ber that Jane doesn't know about" . With that ahe gave me a happy little nod and was off te the greet stone house of my boss up north on the lake. It was a windy, dirty December day. bat I was very content with the world as It wss snd thought Chicago was the finest city in the world. As I sat down te my desk my mind began to dance in a whirl of thoughts of old plans snd new combinations. I wondered whet Sarah would say to some of my schemes to make our fortune. Perhaps they would merely frighten her. for a woman is a natural conservative. I hurried up my business to get back to her and tell ber that some day not so very distant she would he a tolerably rich woman, for now It seenv ed only a step into the greater things I had seen all these years sfsr off. The Drounds gsve ns a dinner not long afterward. I reached the house early, expecting to have a little time with Sarah before the others csme. Pretty soon I heard the rustle of skirts, but. Instead of Sarah, s tall, thin woman in a black lace evening dress came Into the room where the servant bad left me. Instantly I knew that this was the face I had seen In the carriage the morning after the anarchist riot. She wss a beautiful woman, with a dark, almost foreign look. Che snOsi cordially as sle give me her hand. "Sarah is net quite ready. She wants to make herself very too the child! And Mr. Dround is late too. I am glad, because It will give us a tew minutes to ourselves. Come into the library." She led the way Into a long, stately room, with a beautiful ceiling In weed and gold. At one end. In a little arched recess, a wood fire was hissing. There were a number of large paintings on the walls and queer eastern idols and curios in cabinets. Mr. Dround had the reputation of being something of a traveler and collector. My first glance around that room explained a good deal te me about the head of our firm. Mrs. Dround seated herself near the fire, where the light from n great can delabrnm filled with candles flickered above her head. Ber dark eyes gleam ed under use MaCk'hair. It was a pussle of a facet Bho began pretty seen te tafk of Sacnh hi a natural but terribly shrewd way. JI wender. Mr. nuetagtee, if yoc laughing. K takes meet seen years to knewhe woman they marry. If they ever da" "Well, i know enough now to begin with." ..;.,. , rsarah Js each, awojna tender, loy

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al, loving. 'It neds s woman to knew a woman, Mr. Harrington. Bat she hasn't a particle of practical sense. She can't keep an account straight She has no idea what economy is. onlj waat or plenty. She is sewehera, m southern! Those people never think whst will happen day after tomorrow." . . It seemed queer thst she should bt telling me this kind of thing, which 1 should be finding out fast enough fot myself before long. Perhaps she wanted te see wbst I would say. At any rate I replied clumsily something shout not expecting to make n heosekeepet of my wife. "Yet," she said slowly, studying me, "a woman can do so much to make ot mar her husband's csreer." "I guess I shan't lay It up agsinsl my wife if I don't pull out a winner. She laughed at that oo yuu mm, jou art mmf onwugn to win a fight without a woman'i help?" "I've done it so far," I said, thinking a little of May. "You have made n beginning, n good beginning." she remarked Judiciously. She was reading ass like a book of large print, leaning back ia her great chair, her eyes half dosed, her face ia shade except when the firelight flashed. "I suppose the only way m to keep on ss you begun keep your eyes open snd mke everything in sight," X con tinned lightly. "It depends on how much yon waat perhaps." "I want pretty mucb all that Z can get," I retorted quickly, my eyes roving over the rich room, with an Idea thai I might like to pat Sarah la seme such place as this. r Mrs. Dround laughed a long, lew laugh, as though she were speculating why I was what I was. "Well, you are strong enough, my friend. I see. As for Sarah, love her and don't look for what yon can't find." Just then we beard Sarah's laugh. She came into the room with Mr. Dround. a smile kindling graciously all over her face. The two women as they kissed each other made a picture the dark head against the light one. Then Mrs. Dround gave Sarah a cool, "I have been offering your map some, advice. BarahJ (Continued.) In India there are nearly twenty six million widows. Brazil grows more coffee than nny other country in the world. QUAKER ODCAD For ante rhy SimflOs $1S no tSSSZ K9 li Lxili-illl u) TJlcln Try Our HARD COAL n3 lcs.